BORIS JOHNSON gave a rousing speech at the Tory Party Conference this evening. A body linage expert has revealed how Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Boris might really feel.

Boris Johnson went to great lengths to show a united front at the Conservative Party Conference today.

The Foreign Sectary got behind his leader Theresa May with today’s speech, while dubbing Jeremy Corbyn “NATO-bashing” and “pessimistic”.

Boris said: “Theresa May won. She won more votes than any party leader and took this party to its highest share of the vote in any election in the last 25 years - and the whole country owes her a debt for her steadfastness in taking Britain forward as she will to a great Brexit deal.

"Based on that Florence speech on whose every syllable, I can tell you the whole Cabinet is united."

Boris Johnson seems to have impressed Tory Party members with his speech at the conference in Manchester today.

The 53-year-old Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs told his peers that he was behind current leader Theresa May, and said that Tories should ‘let the lion roar’, in the rousing speech.

Boris was strident in his words, but what did his body language communicate?

Body language expert Judi James gave her view on what Boris Johnson was thinking and feeling during his speech, and whether it was really a bid for Number 10.

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Boris Johnson gave a rousing speech at the Tory Party Conference this evening

She said: “He read rather clumsily from his notebook on the lectern when the speech of his life would probably have been part-memorised or on autocue.

“His delivery is always deceptively faltering but this time it really did look as though he'd been scribbling notes in the tea break rather than sitting up with a team of writers to craft a destiny-changing speech.”

Boris may be keeping his bid for leadership back for the time being, leaving Theresa May to lead.

Judi said: “In terms of a rallying cry for leadership of the party Boris's conference speech might have been 100 per cent their type on paper but in performance and body language terms it was more like a soufflé that refused to rise, suggesting BoJo might have been keeping his best back for an attempt on the throne at a later date.”

Judi claims Boris did not deliver “heart-stopping patriotism”, although he is capable of it. What’s more, his ‘lion roar’ finale fell flat, the body language expert said, adding that this could be in part due to a telling off from his leaders.

She said: “His 'Lion roar' finale should have had every Brexiteer on his or her feet and thrown a gauntlet down at Theresa May's feet but he damped down the moment that should have been defiant and heroic by underplaying the vocal intonation and dramatic timing.

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Boris Johnson: Body language expert Judi James gave her view on what Boris's speech really means

“This looked more like either a 'keep-your-powder-dry-for-now' Boris or a Boris who had been kept severely in check by the management. Boris was good, but by his own standards not good enough to signal an imminent charge for power.”

She said: “His emphatic body language gesticulations were either incongruent or looked like a bit of an after-thought. They'll look good in photos but in reality, they seemed prompted by showmanship rather than real passion.

“There was some finger-jabbing and arm-waving but when he spoke of helping the poor he used a pressing-down gesture with one hand that looked more about keeping a lid on that problem.”

Judi recently analysed body language between Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, and had this to say.